It is difficult to me to talk about a favorite book. I prefer to talk about my last one.

My last book was the mails that Kafka sent to his girlfriend, Felice Bauer. It is an amazing book because Kafka exposes his closest personality at the same time he tries to win her. Two incompatible things, from beginning to ending, that little by little the same senders will notify and we, as readers, too, in approximately six hundred letters. It was a kind of impossible love because they were very different. In one hand, she was a happy girl, speech and extrovert, belonging to the bourgeois middle class, with bourgeois aspirations, and by other hand, Kafka was a very sad guy, shy and introverted, with no enough money as to maintain a family. The only thing he really liked to do was to write and everything else he hated it: his job, his family, even the literary surrounding.


They wrote from two remote places and could not seem each other in regular times. Kafka many times said he loved her because he thought her as a savior, a person totally strange to his nature but, at the same time, the only one able to understand him. Apparently, because the book does not include the Bauer’s reply, she loved him exactly for this reason, because he was very weird and mysterious but, no matter what, she could understand him.



Sadly, the differences between them were too big as to be solved. So, in a couple of years they broke twice and, after a relationship of 5 years length, they broke definitely.

Comments

  1. AnonymousJanuary 18, 2018 at 7:22 AM

    It seems interesting but I don't would like that my mails would read after my death :(

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  2. UnknownJanuary 18, 2018 at 7:26 AM

    It seems a very interesting book, I would like to read it.

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  3. sole salazarJanuary 18, 2018 at 7:43 AM

    Oh I would like to read it! i read "letter to his father" by kafka and it is also a letter that kafka wrote with out the intention to be published. it is very good, I recommend it for you.

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